While it's easy, and maybe trendy, to hate on it, Klout and its peers are becoming legitimate channels for indexing and connecting with word-of-mouth influencers.
The performance review of the future will include services like Salesforce.com's Chatter and its Influencers feature, which measures how much weight you carry among your peers.
No matter how brilliant your new idea is, making it a reality requires knowing the right people. Here's half a dozen ways to find and cultivate new relationships.
Whether around the Capitol or around the water cooler, you gotta take care of the people that help you out. Let a lobbyist show you how to get in good and develop lasting influence.
“Become the other person and go from there” is the best piece of coaching advice I ever received, and it applies equally to influence, negotiation, conflict, sales, teaching, and communication of all kinds.
All business advantage is founded on some anomaly--a unique set of experiences that makes you better than anyone else at a particular skill, a new business model, a pool of talent others overlooked, a patent that sets you apart. But it’s not enough to describe the difference--you need "Reason Why Marketing."
Dealing with dueling employees is never easy. While it be great if we could just put everyone in their separate corners to cool off, there are more direct and effective steps to take.
